George Michael’s 2003 Iraq War Interview Goes Viral as U.S.–Israel Tensions With Iran Escalate
February 17, 2026
HISTORIC VIDEO. 2003.
George Michael asked it back then:
“Why are we attacking Iraq while Palestine is in chaos?”
As Ariel Sharon intensified attacks in the West Bank, George Michael questioned the timing of the Iraq invasion and whether war narratives were being coordinated.
Two decades later, the question hits differently.
Because now the premise is shifting again
from Iraq…
to Iran.
Same allies. Same urgency. Same talk of “threats.”
History doesn’t repeat.
It escalates.
Watch the old interviews.
They age too well.
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English Script:
George Michael: Why would we go into this and attack Saddam at the same moment, precisely the same moment, that Palestine is in the worst chaos we’ve seen. Sharon is attacking the West Bank and we are going to attack Saddam Hussein. It seems like madness. What’s wrong with holding Saddam down with one hand the way we have been and using all this time and effort that we’ve been using, trying to convince the international community of something they will not agree with, and rightfully so. Why couldn’t we have spent this time working with Arafat and Sharon and trying to show even handedness? We are so exposed to terrorism by doing both of these things, or ignoring one and doing the other at the same time, the decisions of the next few weeks could influence the foreseeable future in a very, very, very awful way. How much from that speech did you sort of glean that, you know, is Blair trying to take the moral high ground as he seems to be, you know, let us be the liberators of the repressed people of Iraq under him. He’s, you know, a practicing Christian. How much do you feel that you would want to challenge him on his moral stance over Iraq? I would say there’s no moral stance to be had in a preemptive strike. There is no Christian justification for attacking first. Right. As though you can see the future. There is no Christian justification for that. And in terms of taking the moral high ground, I don’t believe that integrity is selective. I think if you have the integrity to protect the oppressed, you do it wherever it happens, not wherever it happens alongside oil. And I think perception is everything. We are going to be tarred with the same brush as the American administration. And I’m proud of being British. And I’d like to stay proud of being British.
